Different Quotes by C. S. Lewis

21 Different quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis often uses fantasy to explore what it means to be set from the norm. These excerpts reveal his thoughtful musings on individuality, faith, and the moral choices that define us.

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If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education…

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One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

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Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I…

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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a…

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

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Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

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Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something…

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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which…

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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are…

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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories…

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I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world…

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The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will…

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The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,…

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Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something…

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The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in…

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It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her…

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Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the…

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The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every…

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If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of…

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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather…

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You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways…

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…

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